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CiteScore:
5.92ℹCiteScore:2019: 5.920CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor:
5.589ℹImpact Factor:2018: 5.589The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
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5-Year Impact Factor:
5.727ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2018: 5.727To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2018 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
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Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
1.809ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2018: 1.809SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
1.536ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2018: 1.536SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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Call for Papers

COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus, Sars-Cov-2) pandemic is wreaking havoc and bringing the whole world into a standstill in an unprecedented fashion. Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN), with its broad scope, is one of the largest journals in environmental sciences and enjoys a large international readership base. We are calling for contributions on papers addressing interactions of COVID-19 with the environment. Novel and scientifically sound contributions will be processed expeditiously (within two weeks from submission to acceptance) so the information can be timely disseminated to the scientific community and the public.

Fires are a natural phenomenon with important impacts on ecosystems, society and economy. Complex changes in the society and in the territory (e.g. land abandonment, urban sprawl and monocultures) and the increasing in the intensity and frequency of summer droughts, as consequence of climate change, are increasing the vulnerability to wildfires. Soils as a key element of the ecosystems are affected by wildfires, especially in high severity wildfires, where vegetation and topsoil organic matter is combusted. This can increase soil and water losses in wildfire affected areas, a process that will be stopped naturally only after vegetation recuperation. This process can take several years, depending on the wildfire severity, topography of the fire affected area and meteorological conditions post-fire. Human interventions in wildfire affected areas can damage the ecosystems and have more serious impacts than the wildfire. In most of the cases the option of no intervention is the best for the soil and vegetation recuperation. Restoration measures are needed, but only in specific cases and when the ecosystems are affected by high severity wildfires.